Chapter: 27
Pyo-wol did not trust the other children. He doesn�t even believe in himself.
He may have looked normal, but he can�t tell if he had already developed some kind of problem mentally. On Pyo-wol�s dumbfounded look, So Yeowol gave a confused expression for a moment.
But she quickly smiled and spoke softly.
�Come back anytime you change your mind. Our door will always be open.�
Pyo-wol just nodded his head without saying a word.
So Yeowol looked at Lee Min.�
�How about you? What are you going to do?�
�Mm��
Instead of answering, Lee Min looked at Pyo-wol and So Yeowol alternately.
Her troubles didn�t last long.
�Alright! I�ll join you. It�s much better to stay together than to be alone.�
Lee Min went to So Yeo Wol�s side.
The three went back to where the other children were, shoulder to shoulder, and Pyo-wol, who was left alone, looked at their backs.
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After only a few hours of getting to know each other�s faces, the children soon found a group similar to themselves.
The group was divided into groups led by So Yeo-wol and Song Chun-woo, a group led by a child named Kang Il, a group led by a boy named Yeom Iljung, and a group headed by a boy named Go Youngsan.
The children who became the heads of each group have a remarkable and outstanding presence. Other children instinctively grouped around a leader with similar tendencies, and factions naturally formed in the underground cavity.
Pyo-wol did not belong to any faction and watched the children.
The children berated Pyo-wol and told him he was unlucky.
�You said there were no other survivors in the mouth where that bastard was?�
�Everyone else died so how did he survive alone?�
�Could he have killed them all?�
Unfounded rumors spread. Everyone knew that Pyo-Wol couldn�t kill others because they were all individually locked up in solitary confinement. Still, the rumors spread secretly.
Although there were only a hundred or so, the world of children in the underground cave was no different from the world outside. They become similar to adults who are vigilant and jealous of someone differing from the majority and pushed them aside.�
He was no different. He was explicitly being ostracized, but Pyo-wol didn�t seem to care. It�s because he has been through a lot of things like this while wandering the world alone.
Above all, Pyo-Wol could not afford to care about the children.
It was because there was not enough time just to seek survival.
Pyo-wol roamed the underground cavity all day long. The first reason was to find out if there was a place to escape, and the second reason was to figure out the origin of the underground cavity. Although the structures in the underground cavity were recently improvised, it was clear that the underground space where he and his children were confined was built a very long time ago.
It took at least several to several decades for the moss to form on the wall.
There was a time gap of at least several years to decades between the room in which he was confined and the buildings here. JrNovels.com